I’ve chopped, and chopped, and chopped, and sanded and salted again and again! I’ve got a good sized parking lot and had to block some of it off for safety. It’s going to remain frigid cold outside until Tuesday, so I don’t expect it to melt away until then. I can’t wait until spring comes along.
The Icy Lot
The Icy Walk to the Store
This is what I do in the evening in front of the TV. I have to be doing something other than watching TV, or I feel like my time is being wasted. These critters are all needle felted and one-of-a-kind.
I love these little coin purses. I can use the left over felted fabric pieces that I used to make other projects. They are really easy to make, but you’ll have to wait until my book comes out (some day) for the instructions.
I didn’t make a purse with this fabric. I didn’t want to loose the design I worked so hard to make. So I made this pillow.
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This is the purse I made from the green fabric I felted. The background fabric is layered greens and blues. There are white oval shapes covered with blue, and yellow/orange flower petals. The flowers match perfectly with the satin lining which was made from a cast-off skirt. The ring handles were also cast-offs from a …
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This is what I did today. I think next time I’ll make the overall design elements smaller. I think the flower designs are too big, although it will make a great looking purse.
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This is Fanny having a little fun with ribbon left over from Christmas. She’s a sweetie and a hellion all rolled up in one little kitty.
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Yesterday I made this felt fabric that I’m going to use for a purse or something. These pictures show the process of wet felting a piece of fabric. Here I am gently tearing pieces of wool from one of my Big Batts. I layered the black wool three layers deep using four ounces of wool. …
I took pictures of my chickens today. This is cutie. She’s a small rolly-polly chicken that walks like a duck because she has such a load of feathers on her feet. She’s the smallest of my chickens, and the most picked on. She’s really sweet and cute.
I’m happy. I had a successful opening. I’ve made some new friends who are as crazy about wool as I am. I met new people from the area and old friends and family came by as well. It’s been a really great day…
This is the front door to my store
It’s never a good time for your water pump to go, but just before your Grand Opening? We’ve only lived here for one month! Turns out the well is right in front of a door to my house, right next to the driveway. I dug up the old well cover. Yes, me, 55 year old, old lady, I did it, me! The hole was about 1 1/2 feet deep by 3 feet wide. Thank God for Ibuprofen. Luckely we got it fixed in time. That little round green thing is the NEW cover to the well. Next time I won’t have to dig it up…….next time I’ll definitely be too old.
That little round green thing is the new well cover
New to The Black Sheep etsy store shopTheBlackSheep.etsy.com. Also available at the store in Center Barnstead, NH
Directions:
From the south: Take route 93N toward Concord NH, take exit 15E onto I-393 which turns into route 9, at the lights take a left onto Main Street (you’ll have just passed Camping World on your right), follow this winding road through Chichester, take a left onto route 28, take a right onto route 126 (Center Barnstead), take a left at the church onto Shackford Corner Rd., turn left onto Brindle Pond Rd. (it will be a dirt road).
From the north: Take route 28S, turn left onto route 126 (Center Barnstead), take a left at the church onto Shackford Corner Rd., turn left onto Brindle Pond Rd. (it will be a dirt road).
My sign was installed last evening. I’m so excited. I’m going to open the shop on Tuesday, December 7. Grand Opening on the 15th.
My New Sign
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Well I’ve been busy, busy, busy getting the store and classroom ready to open for business. I’ve torn up rugs, put down tile, built two 8′ tables, painted and installed shelves, ordered inventory, hung a new door for the store…….
